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Electromagnetic Feedback: Making an electronic sound sculpture [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by camtarn·il y a 4 mois·1 comments

Dynamic Dialects – ultrasound imaging of the tongue across different UK dialects

dynamicdialects.ac.uk
2 points·by camtarn·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

Is The Line dead? [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by camtarn·il y a 7 mois·2 comments

Imperial 'Good Companion' Model T typewriter manual (1938) [pdf]

londontypewriters.co.uk
1 points·by camtarn·il y a 7 mois·0 comments

Why the Dutch embrace floating homes

bbc.com
2 points·by camtarn·il y a 9 mois·0 comments

Modifying a Casio F-Series Digital Watch (2020)

shellzine.net
39 points·by camtarn·il y a 9 mois·4 comments

Hovercraft Suitcase Gives Your Luggage a Smooth Ride

hackaday.com
1 points·by camtarn·il y a 9 mois·0 comments

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camtarn
·il y a 8 jours·discuss
Sadly it's true. I've seen people just put the dishes in the dish rack and let the soap bubbles slide off them.
camtarn
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
This one has a digital oscillator, but uses a coil of wire wrapped around a loudspeaker to introduce feedback into the audio path. This somehow gives a really nice 'roughness' to the sound.
camtarn
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
The Flux mode is really pretty!
camtarn
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
CRI of 80 is not great. From my reading, you want CRI 90 if you want light that's pleasant to exist in.
camtarn
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Yabridge works, and it's frankly incredible that it works at all, but it has some trouble figuring out where I'm clicking on EZDrummer. It's gotten better in the latest version of Linux Mint but it's still a bit off.
camtarn
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Huh, I had one of those Thinkpads and I had no idea that this was a thing!
camtarn
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
As the headline is a question, the response is of course 'no', but it's a good video on the current state of it nonetheless.
camtarn
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
You can still sometimes find mushroom ketchup in UK supermarkets. It tastes a bit like Worcester sauce (spicy and 'brown' tasting), but milder as it has no anchovies in it.
camtarn
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
That's the previous setup from four years ago, where the rats just run down a straight corridor.
camtarn
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
I've had a coffee from a high end bean to cup machines, installed in a conference room at our vebdor's headquarters, which used fresh milk and made a better cappuccino than I've had from real humans at many chain coffee shops. They might be rare, but they're out there.
camtarn
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Bit of a mixed bag for me. There are a lot of things that work remarkably well, but I have some issues with GPU performance (Cyberpunk 2077 just doesn't run well on Linux for me, despite running great on Windows on the same PC, and GPU-heavy apps like Insta360 Studio and Topaz Denoise run excruciatingly slow or not at all) and some things just don't work (my audio VST plugins work alright, albeit with some bugs about window position handling, but I can't get some of the licensing apps to work under WINE).
camtarn
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Java edition can also use Realms. I'm playing on a realm using Linux Java edition and the official launcher now.
camtarn
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
I'd prefer to run Linux, but one of my two primary dev targets requires a proprietary Windows IDE (Automation Studio by B&R). So running that on Windows then using WSL to develop for my Linux servers is the easy path.
camtarn
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
I really like Darktable, and it's my go to photo editor, but the user interface really isn't intuitive on first look compared to something like Lightroom. The design choice that editing modules should be ordered by their place in the pixel pipeline is logical and sometimes useful, but it ends up with a lot of the controls being in rather weird places. The customisable quick controls palette would help, if it weren't that simple things like cropping can't be added to it (at least, last time I investigated this - perhaps it's changed now?)
camtarn
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Unfortunately, vintag.es does seem to have done some work here - while they copied the text, they also added several more images to the single image in the original post.
camtarn
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Hah, damn. We live in different worlds - in mine, 100K samples/sec is blazingly fast!

I'm currently working on a PLC program, replacing the PLC's basic cyclic input sampling (max 2K samples/sec) with a harder-to-use mechanism that lets you access the raw data off its 12-bit ADC at 10K samples/sec, which we consider unusually speedy.
camtarn
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
And they feel so futuristic!
camtarn
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Some of my code gets deployed to a PLC aboard a wave power generator hundreds of metres offshore, with a cellular link that might go down in a storm. If something gets unrecoverably wedged, retrieving the device starts at $10K to hire a ship.

I feel this blog post hard.
camtarn
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Yeah, it's pretty mind-blowing how well this works, even though the setup was a bit janky.

Sadly, after moving my music production setup from Windows to Linux, I'm locked out of some of my expensive sample libraries because while the plugins run fine, the licensing programs do not. Very frustrating.
camtarn
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
No, that serves a completely different purpose: I don't want to read through a very large discussion when this perfectly good article is here. Hence my point. You know this already, as you already change your wording depending on whether you're pointing to a duplicate article, or a valid article but where there's discussion elsewhere.

You could just admit that you made a trivial mistake on a post that's already fallen off the front page, you know. And then we wouldn't both have wasted our time.